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Audio Tape ISIS (2003) |
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Monstrous Regiment
It began as a sudden strange fancy ...
Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time ...
And now she’s enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother. But there’s a war on. There’s always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them.
All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well ... they have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of ... the Monstrous Regiment.
Stephen Briggs they say knows more about Discworld than Tarry Pratchett. He is Boswell to Terry’s Dr Johnson. They collaborated to write the best selling Discworld Companion and a host of other Discworld projects including published dramatizations of Terry’s books.
Amateur groups in over twenty countries have staged the plays and Stephen also directs them himself for a drama club based in Oxford. As a side-line he now sells an exclusive range of Discworld merchandise direct to Terry’s readers, an enterprise he stumbled info by accident.
Unabridged:
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs
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Audio Tape - ISIS (2003) |
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The Wee Free Men
A Story of Discworld
Up on the chalk downs they call The Wold, witches are banned - ever since the Baron’s son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk’s no good for magic.
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny might have been a witch. But now Granny Aching is dead, it’s up to Tiffany to investigate strange happenings: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the new ‘hag’. These are the Nac Mac Feegles who like nothing better than thieven’, fightin’ and drinkin’. Then Tiffany’s young brother goes missing and Tiffany and the Wee Free Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies ...
Stephen Briggs they say knows more about Discworld than Tarry Pratchett. He is Boswell to Terry’s Dr Johnson. They collaborated to write the best selling Discworld Companion and a host of other Discworld projects including published dramatizations of Terry’s books.
Amateur groups in over twenty countries have staged the plays and Stephen also directs them himself for a drama club based in Oxford. As a side-line he now sells an exclusive range of Discworld merchandise direct to Terry’s readers, an enterprise he stumbled info by accident.
Unabridged:
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 15 mins
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Audio Tape ISIS (2002) |
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Night Watch
A Discworld Novel
Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg!
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he’s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck.
Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive; he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his young self to be a good copper and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There’s a problem: if he wins, he’s got no wife, no child, no future.
A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution.
Stephen Briggs they say knows more about Discworld than Tarry Pratchett. He is Boswell to Terry’s Dr Johnson. They collaborated to write the best selling Discworld Companion and a host of other Discworld projects including published dramatizations of Terry’s books.
Amateur groups in over twenty countries have staged the plays and Stephen also directs them himself for a drama club based in Oxford. As a side-line he now sells an exclusive range of Discworld merchandise direct to Terry’s readers, an enterprise he stumbled info by accident.
Unabridged:
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 40 mins
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Audio Tape - ISIS (2002) |
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Strata
Strata is an early exploration of the idea that was to become the best-selling Discworld series
The Company builds planets.
Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact that it is holding a placard which reads ‘End Nuclear Testing Now’, doesn’t dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth.
But then comes a discovery of something that does intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new. . .
Stephen Briggs they say knows more about Discworld than Tarry Pratchett. He is Boswell to Terry’s Dr Johnson. They collaborated to write the best selling Discworld Companion and a host of other Discworld projects including published dramatizations of Terry’s books.
Amateur groups in over twenty countries have staged the plays and Stephen also directs them himself for a drama club based in Oxford. As a side-line he now sells an exclusive range of Discworld merchandise direct to Terry’s readers, an enterprise he stumbled info by accident.
Unabridged:
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 30 mins
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Audio Tape ISIS (2001) |
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The Amazing Maurice
and his educated rodcents
Rats!
They’re everywhere - in the breadbins, dancing across tabletops, stealing pies from under the cooks’ noses. So what does every town need? A good Piper to lure them away.
That’s where. Maurice comes in. But he’s only a cat (even if one that talks), so although he has the ideas, he needs rats and someone to play the pipe. Who better than the kid to play the pipe? And Dangerous Beans. And Peaches. And Hamnpork (who doesn’t really like what’s been happening since The Change - all a rat leader really needs is to be big and stroppy - thinking is just not his thing). And Darktan. And Sardines. And all the others in the Clan.
Then they arrive in Bad Blintz . . . which is suffering from a plague of rats, and find there are NO rats anywhere (though the two resident rat-catchers seem to have plenty of tails to show, at 50 pence per tail).
Someone else has had ideas, and Maurice is not pleased.
Stephen Briggs they say knows more about Discworld than Tarry Pratchett. He is Boswell to Terry’s Dr Johnson. They collaborated to write the best selling Discworld Companion and a host of other Discworld projects including published dramatizations of Terry’s books.
Amateur groups in over twenty countries have staged the plays and Stephen also directs them himself for a drama club based in Oxford. As a side-line he now sells an exclusive range of Discworld merchandise direct to Terry’s readers, an enterprise he stumbled info by accident.
Unabridged:
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 10 mins
About The Author
Terry Pratchett
is Britain's bestselling living novelist and lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in.
He says he doesn't want to get a life after all, because it feels like he's already trying to lead three. He is having a new conservatory built for the carnivorous plants, because they deserve it.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Monstrous Regiment
(ISIS,
2003)
Dec 03
The Wee Free Men
(ISIS,
2003)
Night Watch
(ISIS,
2002)
Strata
(ISIS,
2002)
The Amazing Maurice
(ISIS,
2001)
Eric
(ISIS,
2001)
Thief of Time
(ISIS,
2001)
The Truth
(ISIS,
2001)
Monstrous Regiment
by Terry Pratchett
